[Openal] Retrieve the total number of seconds of a sound file ?

[Daniel PEACOCK]

There isn't a way to get this from OpenAL - however it is a fairly easy
computation to do yourself if you know the details about the Buffer (e.g
sample rate, length in bytes, block alignment (== bits per sample
multiplied by the number of channels)).  These all need to be known to pass
the data to OpenAL in the first place.

BlockAlignment = (BitsPerSample * NumChannels) / 8
DurationInSeconds = LengthInBytes / (SampleRate * BlockAlignment)

Dan
Creative Labs, Inc.

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Dear list

How to get the number of seconds of a sound file with Openal?

I do not want to retrieve the number of seconds when the source is in play
(that I know do) but I want to retrieve the total number of seconds to get
a display like 01:00 / 03:40

what I try to retrieve is 03:40

Thank you in advance

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